Can anyone explain this problem with the CF server ?

If you go into CFADMIN (/CFIDE/administrator) click Settings Summary

You'll see Java File Encoding this will tell you what the default encoding is.

Now as Andy says you can put that on the top of every page, (IIRC you can't do it in Application.cfm it has to be the top of the actual file)

Or if you have access to edit your JVM config you can add this:

-Dfile.encoding=utf8

We've done this with success, and no need of using the processing directive.

HTH

More info about CF and UTF but it's quite old is here: http://www.thickpaddy.com/2009/8/10/coldfusion-is-not-utf-8-encoded

Everyone who's answered so far is on the right track, but I think there's one extra little twist. I suspect that you're copying ISO-8859-1 content and CF is trying to serve it as UTF-8. I believe UTF-8 is the default encoding for modern versions of CF. So, you might have to specify the region-specific encoding you're copying from (again, I suspect ISO-8859-1) instead of UTF-8.

As for why you're having this problem, it's not Dreamweaver's fault, or Word's fault, or CF's fault. It's the fact that you can specify different encodings every step of the way, and there's no automatic way for the computer to infer what you really want to use.

Read this:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

http://www.figleaf.com/

http://training.figleaf.com/

<cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8">

Andy